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A St. Louis technology integration company expanded to Denver on Friday, opening a downtown office where it plans to hire 70 people this year and expand to as many as 250 employees.

World Wide Technology Inc. is making its Denver office a regional sales, engineering and development hub for the 3,000-employee company.

“The area’s strong concentration of technology resources and IT professionals make Denver a natural fit for WWT and will allow us to strengthen our relationships with current customers and partners, expand our services to new clients and secure local talent,” said Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of WWT.

WWT is making Denver a site for its Asynchrony Labs, which is used to work on software, sensors and larger systems for its customers.

WWT helps clients, many of them large companies and government agencies, knit together disparate technologies and adapt new technology or modify existing systems to new ways of using computing power. It generates $7 billion in annual revenue.

Its Denver site could eventually be home to as many as 200 software developers.

The company chose the Denver metro area for its large number of IT workers — particularly ones schooled in agile software development — and because the area’s home to many large companies and is in a region with strong growth in healthcare and transportation, which are target industries for the company.

WWT noted Denver also has a regional branch of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, of which WWT has been a longstanding member.

The expansion to Denver follows a year in which the company started building a $95 million headquarters campus in St. Louis and acquired the Asynchrony Labs business.

Among those scheduled to attend WWT’s morning office opening are Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, Suma Nallapati, Secretary of Technology and CIO for Colorado’s state government, and Stan Sena, President and CEO of the Mountain Plains Minority Supplier Development Council.